Meditation

Much unhappiness that we experience in life can be solved by disassociating from our thoughts and emotions. Meditation is the practice of detaching from the mind and its continual chatter. Eknath Easwaran describes it like this, “It’s like getting into a glass-bottomed boat, where you venture out onto the ocean. There you can watch all the deep-sea creatures swimming beneath the surface: resentment sharks, stingrays of greed, or schools of fear.” As you develop this ability to observe, you are no longer a slave to your thoughts and emotions. There is freedom here, and so much becomes available to us from this place. 

We begin our 8-week meditation series by learning a basic awareness meditation. This meditation helps you develop the witness to your thoughts and emotions. The practice itself brings about a sense of peace and well-being. From there, other meditation techniques will be introduced that will help you discover who you are without your thoughts—developing pure awareness and consciousness, tapping into your intuition (“knowing without thinking”), and merging finitude in infinity.